Chapter 1457: Refining the Heart in the Mortal World (4)
Chapter 1460: Refining the Heart in the Mortal World (4)
Carrying a heavy oil-paper bag and humming a silly ditty, Li Jin returned home under the full moonlight.
"Damn ghost, why didn't you come back until now?"
Li opened the door for him, but was almost knocked to the ground by the latter's choking alcohol smell: "How much have you drunk?"
"Not much, just two pots of apricot blossoms."
Li Jin smiled drunkenly and put the oil paper bag in his hand into his wife's hand: "This is the wine and food I packed back, just for you as a midnight snack."
Mr. Li was the most gluttonous person. He weighed the heavy oil paper buns and smiled broadly: "How can you be happy about something?"
Li Jin entered the room, sat down on the chair, and replied triumphantly: "I touched a fish today, pinched out ten taels of snowflake silver, and gave Lao Zhang three taels."
"Really?"
Li was overjoyed: "Where did the water fish come from?"
Li Jin is a tax collector in the county government, which is a good job. However, the superior officials are corrupt and the money that can fall into his hands is limited.
The local merchants and traders in this town are not so easy to bully!
Today, Li Jin actually took a fish out of water and pinched out ten taels of snowflake silver. Even if he gave three taels to Lao Zhang, he still made a huge profit.
"A foreign scholar."
Li Jin waved his hand carelessly and said, "Go and heat some hot water. I want to warm my feet to make them comfortable."
"Okay!"
Mrs. Li happily ran to the kitchen to boil water.
Li Jin opened the oil paper package on the table, grabbed a piece of braised beef and stuffed it into his mouth. While chewing, he thought about how to get more oil and water from the fish.
He has worked as a tax collector for more than ten years, and his eyes are so venomous that he can tell he has something up his sleeve as soon as he looks at the other person.
This kind of fish should be simmered slowly and slowly, and the oil and water should be squeezed out bit by bit.
In addition, the reporter has to fight again, and eating both ends is the right way!
The more Li Jin thought about it, the more beautiful it became, and he reached out to grab the beef again.
As a result, he missed the opportunity this time and knocked over the oil lamp on the table with the back of his hand.
"Oh!"
Li Jin instinctively wanted to hold up the lamp, but as a result, he drank too much and his hands and feet were sluggish. Not only was he unable to hold it up, but he fell to the ground along with the table.
The burning lamp oil splashed in all directions and quickly ignited the gauze tent next to it. The small flame turned into a raging flame in the blink of an eye.
Li Jin was shocked and struggled to get up to put out the fire.
But no matter how hard he tried, the chair weighing him down seemed as heavy as a mountain, making him unable to move.
The greedy tax collector watched helplessly as the fire spread and swallowed him whole.
He couldn't help but howl in despair.
"The Li family is in trouble!"
When the raging flames burned through the roof, the neighbors noticed the situation, and someone immediately rushed out and shouted loudly.
Half the block was alarmed, and people rushed over with buckets to put out the fire to prevent their homes from being destroyed.
With more people and greater strength, the sudden fire was quickly extinguished.
Then the patrol soldiers came after hearing the news and dragged out two charred corpses from the ruins of the mostly burned Li family.
Some neighbors recognized Li Jin and his wife based on some characteristics of the corpses.
Li Jin and his wife are both natives of Qing'an County. They have no sons but only two daughters, and they are all married.
Since Li Jin was a tax collector, the county government paid great attention to it and sent out police officers and policemen to investigate.
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In the end, it was concluded that Li Jin was drunk and accidentally got into a fire and dragged his wife into the sea of fire. This incident was purely accidental and there was no sign of man-made creation.
Then the Yamen closed the case, and Li Jin's two daughters and relatives and friends were in an ugly quarrel over the inheritance issue, which became a hot topic among the neighbors.
But the funeral could not be postponed. In the end, it was the county government's master who came forward to settle the funeral arrangements.
Buying coffins, performing rituals, conducting funerals and burials, setting up banquets...
After the whole process, the property left by Li Jin and his wife was completely spent, and the two daughters even gave away ten taels of silver, causing the sisters to completely fall out and never communicate with each other again!
The tragic incident that happened to the tax collector Li's family did not have any impact on Wang Chen, who taught in the private school in Tongluo Alley.
Under the principle of "education without distinction", his number of students increased by fifty, and then he closed the door and hung up a pen indicating that he would no longer recruit students.
There is no other way. The scale of Wang's private school is very small. It has exceeded its limit to accommodate fifty students. If there is no room for more students to stand, it naturally cannot continue to expand blindly.
Day after day, the days passed slowly like this.
The reputation of Wang Chen, the teacher in Tongluo Lane, gradually spread with the passage of time.
There are both official schools and private schools in Qing'an County, but none of them like Wang Chen, which recruits all the children of the poorest class, and the tuition fees are very low.
A loaf of bacon and half a bag of rice can be used as bundles!
Not only that, Wang Chen also taught very well. The door of Wang's school was open during the day, and anyone could go in and watch him teach.
This aroused dissatisfaction among some teachers at the private school, who felt that Wang Chen's actions were insulting to gentlemen and ruined their reputation.
During their normal gatherings, these teachers would often criticize Wang Chen and even plan to join forces to expel him from Qing'an County.
But the thunder was loud and the rain was light. Even though the gentlemen were indignant, they could not do anything to Wang Chen who had disrupted the market.
On the contrary, some of the noisiest gentlemen either fell down while walking and broke their bones, or their homes were robbed and lost a lot of property. All in all, they were very unlucky.
Over time, everyone acquiesced in the existence of Wang's private school.
Anyway, most of the people Wang Chen recruited were poor and humble people, and there was no direct conflict with them.
Wang Chen is no longer a hot topic.
However, a few months later, he once again appeared on the hot search list in Qing'an County.
Not only does Wang's Guan Shu accept poor and humble children as students, it actually provides these poor bastards with a free lunch and teaches them basic martial arts to strengthen their bodies.
It is common for rich and powerful families to do good deeds by giving porridge to the poor, but as a teacher and a down-and-out scholar, Wang Chen actually did such a thing, which is really impressive.
If the Wang's School was not too small and could not accommodate more students, all the families in Nancheng would send their children to study under Wang Chen.
Then there were more voices scolding Wang Chen for seeking fame and reputation with ulterior motives.
Some private school teachers also called Wang Chen's students "Wang Sheng", belittling and ridiculing them, and strictly prohibited their students from associating with "Wang Sheng".
Gradually, "Wang Sheng" became another existence in Qing'an County!
However, none of the ups and downs from the outside world could enter Wang's school, nor could they shake Wang Chen in the slightest.
Time flies and another year passes.
On this day, an uninvited guest came to the private school in Tongluo Alley.
